[dmitriid]

> But if we drop this constraint and design widgets with their own consistent style within the same app

Style is just one of many things. And it's extremely hard to properly code your own consistent UI toolkit.

On top of that every platform has a myriad of platform-specific behaviors that people expect and that you will get wrong in yours. Accessibility is the big elephant in the room. But even things like secondary focus in prompts/dialogs on MacOS (that Apple's own Catalyst and Swift forget about) is a bitch and a half to get right.

[zorr]

I agree, which is why I'm not advocating writing or designing your own toolkit. Instead we as a developer community should focus on the "next generation" of toolkits for the modern cross-platform world. Take all that we have learned from GTK, Qt, Flutter and all the web stuff and incorporate it into something new for the next 10-20 years.

Rust is a nice language for that since it is already a "next-generation" language in terms of memory safety and its momentum is still building. Projects like Druid, while far from ready, are a good starting point.